The Muslim Rights Concern has said that President Goodluck Jonathan is presenting Nigeria to the world as a nation of liars.
The group was reacting to the ongoing controversy between Nigeria and Morocco, a North African country over a phone call.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs had claimed that the Nigerian President spoke on telephone with his Moroccan counterpart. But the Morrocan Ministry of Foreign Affairs had come out to deny the claim, saying that its president never had a conversation with Jonathan.
The development made Morocco to withdraw its ambassador to Nigeria after Jonathan admitted that he did not speak with the Moroccan king as claimed by the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
MURIC said it was embarrassed by the incident.
“Like many other patriotic individuals and groups in the country, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) is seriously embarrassed by this avoidable diplomatic conundrum into which the Federal Government (FG) has driven Nigeria.
“It reflected our infantile diplomacy, administrative ineptitude and irreversible leadership failure.
“It only recently became too clever by half when its local propensity to mislead gullible Nigerians assumed an international dimension.
“The manufacturers in FG’s factory of lies simply overreached themselves by taking on foreign countries”, MURIC said adding that Morocco is not alone in rebuffing Nigeria in recent times.
“It is rather unfortunate that President Jonathan is yet to appreciate the full implication of his admission that he actually did not have a telephone conversation with the Moroccan king.
“It means that Nigeria lied and if Nigeria lied it means our president lied. This is what Mr. President underestimated.
“The underestimation syndrome has eaten deep into Mr. President’s character. After all he shocked Nigerians by saying that stealing was not corruption.
“He underestimated the kidnapping of the Chibok girls and for weeks he did not believe any girl was abducted. The girls are yet to be found to date.
“He also underestimated the Boko Haram insurgency. He reportedly admitted this much. It cost us thousands of lives and untold suffering.
“Yet Mr. President said the Moroccan saga in which his government has been caught lying was “less important”.
“He considered drawing the opposition into the gay debate as more important. It is nauseating”, it said in a statement Saturday.
MURIC added that the Moroccan affair was yet to take its full toll and said Nigerians in the diaspora may soon start facing the music.
“It has happened before. They may be subjected to contempt and dehumanization.
“Nobody is going to trust citizens of a country whose government takes pleasure in telling lies to both its citizens and the international community”, the group said.
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